To Easton and Anderson 4 May [1874]1
G.
My son H. D. wishes much to continue at your works, where he has now had a months trial; I shd be much obliged if you could send him the indenture for signature.2 I beg to call your attention to one point.: my son has been for some time recently out of health & his physician Dr Andrew Clark of C. Sqe3 urges him strongly not to overexert at first & he thinks that he will thus gradually gain strength.— My son is most desirous to enter your works; & I am sure that he will never voluntarily be idle. Under these circumstances I trust that you will be so good as not to bind him to long hours of work.
Gentlemen | Your obliged & obedi servt | C. D.
May 4th.
Easton. & Anderson | The Grove | Southwark | London
Footnotes
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
CD’s son Horace wishes to continue at Easton and Anderson’s Works. CD trusts they will not bind him to long hours of work as this would be against medical advice.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9440
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Easton and Anderson
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 97: C55
- Physical description
- ADraftS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9440,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9440.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
